re: The official post WCQ "I feel dead inside, existence is pain" check in thread

frick, I just watched the goal. It always feels like it just happened yesterday.

That moment has never felt so far away.

If the World Cup started tomorrow I don't think I could watch a single game.

I don't think I'll be able to watch any games with a concacaf team involved when it does come around.

We had Danny Williams and Weston Mckinnie playing significant minutes with their club teams in the Bundesliga and EPL at defensive mid. We didn't call them up, and instead of playing a solid defensive midfield when we need a draw we played Bradley basically by himself. Disgusting

He has 3 appearances in 7 league games. I mean significant in the sense that he's playing in important league games. He's not on an EPL team the same way Akpom and Rene-Adelaide play for Arsenal.

My point is what sort of position are we in the midfield to turn down players deemed good enough to play in EPL games?

The fact that wondo missing that sitter is our last World Cup memory for 8 years is so depressing.

I guess technically Green's goal happened later in that game. That is also a pretty depressing memory but for a different reason.

I didn't realize he hurt his foot. But apparently he wouldn't have been called in anyway.

Why was he not called in at any point in this cycle? Or at least in the hex? He's the closest ready made like for like to Jermaine Jones we have in the player pool, and Jones is a player we clearly miss dearly.

I know hindsight is 20/20 but sticking with MLS guys, the established MLS vets, was a disaster.

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It's fricking harrowing that come to 2022 when (hopefully) we 're playing our first match of that World Cup, it'll be the first time we've watched the US in a World Cup since Wondo's miss. frick, this is going to be a long arse 5 years.

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Man, don't worry about nothing. My boy just turned 13, and he was invited to participate in a PDP for one of his leagues. 5 years from now he'll be 18 and dominating.... his intramural frat team at college.

One thing that's helped me a bit is realizing that Graham Zusi single handedly saved Mexico from this exact fate four years ago. It went their way that night and didn't for us on Tuesday.

They went through a qualifying cycle of being primarily garbage, and somehow managed to get back to the top pretty readily.

Cwill77

If you thought this usmnt was any good you dont watch enough soccer.
The 2nd pot teams would all crush them.

I love pulisic.
Not much else.

You need a few good ones. There are latino boys on my street. They were playing football on sunday. They play basketball. They do own a soccer ball but its just one of three sports and hoops gets the most practice time.
You think 3.5 million uruguayans are playing anything but soccer?

Forlan is old. They are still competitive without him.

I feel so dejected about not qualifying. We need real experts to come in and tell us what to do.